Typical Selections from the Best English Authors: With Introductory NoticesClarendon Press, 1869 - 400 páginas |
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... and the notices accompanying them written , by many different persons , for whose invaluable assistance the best thanks of the Editor are due . OXFORD , Sept. 15 , 1869 . CONTENTS . I. HUGH LATIMER . Circa 1470-1555 · A.
... and the notices accompanying them written , by many different persons , for whose invaluable assistance the best thanks of the Editor are due . OXFORD , Sept. 15 , 1869 . CONTENTS . I. HUGH LATIMER . Circa 1470-1555 · A.
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... person upon his honour . My lord admiral , having also a disposition to come up at first , but the river was so choked as he could not pass with the Ark , came up in person into the Nonparilla , with my lord Thomas . While I was thus ...
... person upon his honour . My lord admiral , having also a disposition to come up at first , but the river was so choked as he could not pass with the Ark , came up in person into the Nonparilla , with my lord Thomas . While I was thus ...
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... person than he is used to speak to , and stumbling at his entrance , to save himself from falling , lets slip his cloak ; to recover his cloak , lets fall his hat ; and with one disorder after another , discovers his astonishment and ...
... person than he is used to speak to , and stumbling at his entrance , to save himself from falling , lets slip his cloak ; to recover his cloak , lets fall his hat ; and with one disorder after another , discovers his astonishment and ...
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... person , even from those that at other times and in other companies , took a liberty to cast off that strictness of behaviour and discourse that is required in a collegiate life . And when he took any liberty to be pleasant , his wit ...
... person , even from those that at other times and in other companies , took a liberty to cast off that strictness of behaviour and discourse that is required in a collegiate life . And when he took any liberty to be pleasant , his wit ...
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... person of a noble nature , and generous disposition , and of such other endowments , as made him very capable of being a great favourite to a great king . He understood the arts of a court , and all the learning that is professed there ...
... person of a noble nature , and generous disposition , and of such other endowments , as made him very capable of being a great favourite to a great king . He understood the arts of a court , and all the learning that is professed there ...
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Página 294 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Página 295 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are strong as links of iron.
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Página 302 - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains. Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic.
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